User`s guide

Verification Procedure
Verifying a Configuration
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Enterprise Configuration Manager
User’s Guide
Verification Procedure
The ECM verification procedure enables you to compare loaded configurations
with expected configurations, the configurations as they are defined in ECM.
Though the verification procedure differs slightly depending on whether the
configuration is device specific or shared, the basic steps are the same.
To verify a configuration:
1. Select the configuration you want to verify.
If the configuration is device specific, you can select more than one
configuration. If the configuration is shared, you can select only one
configuration.
2. Select the device(s) you want.
This step is unnecessary if the configuration is device specific since the
device is automatically selected when you select the configuration. This
step is also unnecessary with shared configurations if the preselected
device or component is what you want.
However, with shared configurations, you can select more than one device
at a time.
3. Click on the Verify button and click Yes to the confirmation prompt.
4. View the results. If you verified more than one device’s configuration, the
results for each are displayed.
5. If a configuration does not match, view and print the result details for
your records and analysis.
6. Close the result windows.
Verification Process
To perform a verification:
1. ECM first captures the actual (the loaded) configuration of the selected
device.
2. Then it compares each attribute/value pair in the captured configuration
with the expected (the selected) configuration, as it is defined and stored
in ECM.
3. Next, ECM displays the results in the Verify Results and the Verify Detail
windows.